Posted: Jun 02, 2012 8:30 pm
willhud9 wrote:Er where exactly are these public funds? Because you can say the institution receives public funds and lo and behold it is simply financial aid to the students and not funding the school in the slightest.
The VP says later in the story:
(T)he (public) money goes to job incentives and covers functional expenses.
There also remains the issue of whether this violates human rights law, regardless of whether the school receives public funding. Canadian law forbids discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation even for private businesses. Claimed exceptions to this are subject to the Meiorin test:
An employer can justify the impugned standard by establishing on the balance of probabilities:
1) that the employer adopted the standard for a purpose rationally connected to the performance of the job;
2) that the employer adopted the particular standard in an honest and good faith belief that it was necessary to the fulfilment of that legitimate work-related purpose; and
3) that the standard was is reasonably necessary to the accomplishment of that legitimate work-related purpose. To show that the standard is reasonably necessary, it must be demonstrated that it is impossible to accommodate individual employees sharing the characteristics of the claimant without imposing undue hardship upon the employer
If this was a Catholic seminary, they would probably be able to meet those criteria. As it is, I think they'll have trouble. This is especially the case since gay marriage is legal in Canada, and while they seem to allow that heterosexual employees cam forego the celibacy requirement if they are married, gay do not have that option even though they can be legally married.
The students are not happy with this rule, either:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-bruns ... s-221.html